Research project This project investigates future time perspective in athletes with a specific focus on sport injury.
To suffer a sports injury can be a devastating event in an athlete's life. Traditionally, research on sports injuries has focused on physiological factors, but psychological factors can also play a significant role. An athlete’s view of their future in sports, their future time perspective, is a psychological factor that can advance understanding of athletes’ psychophysiological experience of sports injury.
Umeå School of Sport Sciences at Umeå University
The focus of the project is to study the significance of future time perspective in athletes with a specific focus on sport injuries. In the first, ongoing study, an instrument is developed to capture athletes' future time perspective. The instrument is based on a theoretical model that posits that how we perceive our future—considering both opportunities and limitations—affects our well-being and behavior in the present. In the long term, the instrument will serve as a foundation for further research on the significance of future time perspective in sports injuries, focusing on aspects such as preventive measures, adherence to rehabilitation, return to activity, and adaptation following injury.
